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10 unusual facts about University of Bristol


Anne McClain

She is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (BS Mechanical Engineering); the University of Bath (MS Aerospace Engineering) and the University of Bristol (MS International Security), both in the United Kingdom.

David Gwilym James

From 1942 to 1952 he was Winterstoke Professor of English at the University of Bristol.

Elizabeth Casson

Elizabeth Casson (14 April 1881 – 17 December 1954) was the first female doctor to graduate from the University of Bristol.

Frances Balfour

Brockington, Grace, Lecturer in History of Art, University of Bristol, Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain, 1900–1918, Yale University Press, (08/03/2011) – 244 pages, ISBN 978-0-300-15195-4

Kenneth Grayston

In 1944, he was appointed assistant director of broadcasting at the BBC, moving from there to become a tutor in New Testament at Didsbury Theological College, then a lecturer at the University of Bristol.

Leslie Rowsell Moore

His family had encouraged him to obtain a good education and hoped that he would study medicine; however, he won a Miner's Welfare Scholarship at the University of Bristol where he read Geology and obtained a first class degree.

He moved briefly to a more senior position at the University of Glasgow before being appointed to a Readership in the University of Bristol.

Tewkesbury School

A couple of months later, on Thursday 16 November 1972, the official opening took place, performed by Professor Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), Chancellor of the University of Bristol from 1970 till 1988, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1976.

The Castle School

The official opening ceremony took place in 1966, attended by the Duke of Beaufort, Chancellor at the University of Bristol at the time.

Totally Tom

After Eton, Stourton, the second son of former BBC journalist Edward Stourton, studied art history at the University of Bristol while Palmer read history at Oxford University.


A.J. Timothy Jull

He graduated from the University of Bristol in 1976 with a PhD in Geochemistry, doing postdoctoral work at Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute.

Angela Knight

She then went to the University of Bristol, gaining a BSc in Chemistry, and became an engineer working for Air Products, where she became a Product Development Manager for nitrogen.

Bicester Community College

There have been successful Oxbridge applications from the school in the last ten years, and the school has sent students to other top UK universities, including King's College London, the London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London, the University of Warwick, the University of Bristol and the University of Nottingham.

Bretazenil

David Nutt from the University of Bristol has suggested bretazenil as a possible base from which to make a better social drug, as it displays several of the positive effects of alcohol intoxication such as relaxation and sociability, but without the bad effects such as aggression, amnesia, nausea, loss of coordination, liver disease and brain damage.

Brit Andresen

In addition to the Universities of Cambridge and Queensland, Andresen has held teaching positions at the Architectural Association in London, the School of Architecture and Urban Planning UCLA, Bristol University School of Architecture and a guest lecturing position at The Royal University of Malta.

C. Lloyd Morgan

He taught in Cape Town, but in 1884 joined the staff of the then University College, Bristol as Professor of Geology and Zoology, and carried out some research of local interest in those fields.

Cromwell in Ireland

The series consultants included John Morrill, Professor of History at University of Cambridge, Jane Ohlmeyer, Professor of History and Vice Provost at Trinity College, Dublin, Pádraig Lenihan, Lecturer in History at University of Limerick, Nicholas Canny, Professor of History at NUI Galway and Ronald Hutton, Professor of History at University of Bristol.

David Henry Wilson

He has lived in France, Ghana, Germany and Switzerland, and for many years was a lecturer at the universities of Bristol and Konstanz (where he founded and ran the university theatre).

Epstein–Barr virus

The Epstein–Barr virus is named after Michael Anthony Epstein, a professor emeritus at the University of Bristol, and Yvonne Barr (born 1932 in London), a 1966 Ph.D graduate from the University of London, who together discovered and documented the virus.

Eric Sheppard

Sheppard grew up in Cambridge, England and studied geography at the University of Bristol under Peter Haggett (graduating 1972) before moving to Canada and completing his Ph.D in Geography in 1976 at the University of Toronto.

Frank Nabarro

At the University of Bristol his work under Professor Nevill Francis Mott, a future Nobel Laureate in physics, earned him the Oxford degree of BSc (then equivalent to an MSc elsewhere).

Friends of Herculaneum Society

Professor Daniel Delattre (CNRS, Paris), Prof. Robert Fowler (University of Bristol), Prof. Richard Janko (University of Michigan), Dr. Dirk Obbink (University of Oxford), Mr. Nigel Wilson (University of Oxford)

Habitation Extension Module

They were conceived by a consortium of engineers and scientists led by Mark Hempsell, aeronautical engineer at the University of Bristol.

Kenneth Dover

Dover received honorary degrees from the Universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Durham, Liverpool, and Oglethorpe.

Klaus Dodds

He was educated at Wellington College and the University of Bristol where he completed degrees in geography and political science.

Lionel Charles Knights

He was an English lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1933, then Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield in 1947 and the Winterstoke Professor of English at University of Bristol in 1953.

Pawlett, Somerset

Peter Haggett CBE ScD FBA (b. 1933), eminent academic geographer, emeritus professor at University of Bristol, born in Pawlett.

Roy and Lesley Adkins

Lesley was brought up and educated in Havant, Hampshire, then at the University of Bristol, gaining a degree in Archaeology, Ancient History and Latin, and later a Master of Philosophy from the University of Surrey.

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

Further criticism of some of Eliade's positions came from the English historian Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol in his book, Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination (2001).

Simon Gaskell

Following a bachelor’s degree and a PhD at the University of Bristol, he took up his first research post in 1974 at the University of Glasgow.

Sinan Al Shabibi

Born in Baghdad on 1 July 1941 and son of the prominent Iraqi figure Mohammed Ridha Al-Shabibi, Dr. Al-Shabibi holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Baghdad University (1966), a Diploma in Advanced Studies in Economic Development, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Manchester (1970, 1971), and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bristol (1975).

Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University

The university is fully accredited to National Assessment and Accreditation Council and has tied with major international universities such as University of Vienna, the University of Bristol, the University of Kent, University of Lyon, University of Notre Dame, etc.